Download or read book Precious Memories The Faith Promoting Series Book 16 written by George C. Lambert and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 16th book in the Faith-Promoting Series, and the second volume primarily written by George C. Lambert. Lambert worked closely with George Q. Cannon at Deseret Book, and after Cannon’s death he continued publishing volumes in this series. This book, just like the previous book in the series, Treasures in Heaven, has a special emphasis on temples and geneology work. The story of Thomas Briggs is one of a life-long pursuit to find geneological records. In spite of great personal and physical trials, including the amputation of his legs, Briggs made finding the names of his ancestors a priority in his life. He worked ofter at the Logan Temple, and before his death he had amassed a huge collection of geneology. George L. Farrell was a missionary in England in 1875. He had unique experiences with a number of people, and they continued later in his life when people he had ministered to there moved to Utah. The book concludes with a number of short experiences, regarding missionary work and the changes possible when the Spirit touches people’s hearts.
Download or read book Precious Memories written by George C. Lambert and published by Latter-day Strengths. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Helpful Visions The Faith Promoting Series Book 14 written by George Q. Cannon and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 14th book in the Faith-Promoting Series, a collection of books written with young Latter-day Saints in mind. The stories contained in each volume are designed to be exciting to read, teach important gospel principles, and most importantly bring the reader closer to the Savior and show the Hand of God in the everyday lives of everyday Saints. This volume includes experiences from Orson F. Whitney, Briant Stevens, and Thomas A. Shreeve. Whitney was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, a notable writer of both fiction and non-fiction. He was assistant Church historian, as well as a teacher at BYU. Briant Stevens died not long after being ordained an Elder, but his shining example in the face of trials and suffering is inspiring. He was a true example of a normal member of the Church accomplishing extraordinary things with the help of Heavenly Father. Thomas A. Shreeve was born in England and joined the church there in 1864. Five years later he moved to Ogden, Utah, arriving on the second immigrant train to reach the Salt Lake Valley. In 1878 he was called on a mission to Australia, and served his mission in New Zealand. He organized the New Zealand mission and was witness to many miracles during that time. He was later ordained a patriarch in his home stake in Ogden.
Download or read book Treasures In Heaven written by George C. Lambert and published by Latter-day Strengths. This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eventful Narratives written by George Q. Cannon and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 13th book in the Faith-Promoting Series. It is comprised of three stories from different authors, each with the common theme of sacrifice for the sake of the gospel. Like other books in the Faith-Promoting Series, it is designed to be easy to read, relevant to the daily lives of Latter-day Saints, and exciting. The first section, Leaving Home, is the story of Robert Aveson. Aveson was born in England and received a testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel, but his parents and other family members were violently opposed to him joining the Church. He attended meetings in secret for many years, until he had saved enough money to run away to the US and then on to Utah. His first two attempts at escape were stopped, but eventually he succeeded and successfully arrived in Salt Lake City. Years later his parents both converted to the Church and joined him there. William Anderson was a soldier, a man from a strict family who left behind a touching legacy for his posterity. He joined the Church and journeyed with his family to Nauvoo where he participated in the Battle of Nauvoo. O. B. Huntington relates a thrilling story of journeying through the desert in an area controlled by Native Americans. Amazing intervention from the Lord allows both the Native Americans and the travelers to arrive at their destinations safely.
Download or read book Labors in the Vineyard written by George Q. Cannon and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 12th book in the Faith-Promoting Series. Like many of the other wonderful books in this series, this book is a collection of experiences from missionaries, pioneers, and early Church members. The stories range from the miraculous with amazing examples of the Lord’s hand reaching out to help Saints in need, to the deeply spiritual and personal. While the Saints who tell these stories have long since passed on, their experiences and the faith that sustained them are just as relevant for us today as they were for their contemporaries. I hope that the stories told here will strengthen your faith just as they have strengthened mine, and will bring you closer to the Savior. The Faith-Promoting Series was started by George Q. Cannon, the founder of Deseret Book, as a way to help youth who weren’t interested in reading “gospel books” have quality, spiritually-uplifting materials to read. They were extremely popular when published in the 1800s and remain so today.
Download or read book Myth of the Manuscript Found And The Complete Original Spaulding Manuscript written by George Reynolds and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any member of the LDS Church has been told reasons why the Book of Mormon “just can’t be true”. One of the most common that seems to persist in folk culture is the myth that Sidney Rigdon wrote the Book of Mormon by basing it on the Spaulding Manuscript. The manuscript that Spaulding wrote and tried to sell to a publisher in 1812 contains the story of a group of ancient Romans that sail to the American continent and populate it. Sidney Rigdon supposedly read this manuscript during his acquaintane with the publisher, and used it as a basis for what would become the Book of Mormon. The first half of this book, the eleventh book in the Faith-Promoting Series, was originally published by Deseret Book in 1883 examines both the story behind the manuscript and the claims that Rigdon wrote the Book of Mormon. It was published the year that Spaulding’s original manuscript was found in papers donated to Oberlin University. It details not only the differences between the manuscript and the Book of Mormon, but also gives additional information that may be useful when a member of the Church is asked to defend the Book of Mormon from detractors. Following the Faith-Promoting Series book, I have also included the text of the original Spaulding Manuscript as it has been transcribed from the original manuscript submitted to the published by Spaulding. As an adventure story it has some interesting moments, but it really can’t compare to the Book of Mormon in excitement or depth. I hope that you enjoy perusing it, and that someday it will come of use to you when discussing the Book of Mormon.
Download or read book Scraps of Biography written by George Q. Cannon and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tenth book in the Faith-Promoting Series. Like many other books in the series, this volume is made up of sketches of various pioneers and other members of the Church from early Church history. The sketches in this volume are about John Tanner, Daniel Tyler, and Newel Knight. John Tanner was one of the primary finaciers of the Kirtland Temple. His conversion to the Church followed a miraculous healing. He and his family later moved to Missouri, Iowa (on the other side of the Mississippi River from Nauvoo), and then across the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. Daniel Tyler was an early convert to the Church who was familiar with both Hyrum Smith, who played an important part of his learning about the Gospel, and Joseph Smith who he knew in Missouri. Tyler was called on a mission to Switzerland and was the teaching missionary of Karl G. Maeser, who later went on to revolutionize education in Utah as one of the founders of Brigham Young University. Tyler also is the author of one of the early histories of the Mormon Battalion, A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War. Newel Knight was an aquaintance of Joseph Smith before the time of the organization of the Church, and was one of the early converts in New York. He and his family joined the Church in May 1830 and was the branch president of the Colesville Branch. He continued to lead the branch after it left New York for Ohio and Jackson County, Missouri, and was a member of several of the early high councils of the Church.
Download or read book Fragments of Experience written by George Q. Cannon and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the sixth book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Like many of the other books in the series, this book presents a series of vignettes from early Church history about missionary work, investigating and embracing the Gospel, and miracles that have happened in the everyday lives of members of the Church. It was prepared by George Q. Cannon, a member of the First Presidency and the founder of Deseret Book, for the inspiration and enrichment of young people. Today it stands as a wonderful, faith-enriching testament of the involvement of Heavenly Father in the everyday lives of those who follow Him. There are two sections of special interest. Lorenzo Dow Young, a brother of Brigham Young, writes about the experiences he had that let him to investigate and join the Church, including special visions and dreams that came to him. William W. Cluff and Benjamin F. Johnson’s missions to Hawaii also receive special mention. They describe the missionary work they were involved in while serving the Hawaiian people, the trials and challenges they faced, and the miraculous help they recieved from the Lord. The amazing healing of Lorenzo Snow is central to their memoirs. Like other books in this series, the writing style is clear and engaging, meant to be easily understood, and the stories are captivating. I hope that your faith will be strengthened as mine has been from the stories told here.
Download or read book Gems for the Young Folks written by George Q. Cannon and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gems For the Young Folks, book four of the Faith-Promoting Series, is a volume of interesting stories about visions and dreams, healings, and divine impressions. This is a unique insight into the lives of many early Saints, their missionary work and other adventures, and testimonies about the goodness of the Lord. Like many other volumes in the Faith-Promoting Series, this book is a compilation from a number of authors, edited by George Q. Cannon, a member of the first presidency and founder of Deseret Book. Some of the authors remain anonymous, while others share experiences under their own names. Like all of the volumes in this series, and as the title suggests, it was written with Youth in mind. I hope that this volume will help to build the faith and strengthen the testimony of all who read it.
Download or read book Jacob Hamblin A Narrative of His Personal Experience written by Jacob Hamblin and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth book in the Faith-Promoting series, and quite possibly the most popular of all 17 books in the series. The full original title is Jacob Hamblin: A Narrative of His Personal Experience as a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians, and Explorer: Disclosing Interpositions of Providence, Severe Privations, Perilous Situations and Remarkable Escapes. This first-person narrative told is by Jacob Hamblin and tells of his turning to God after a miraculous healing, conversion to the Church, joining the Saints in Nauvoo, the succession crisis after the death of Joseph Smith, the journey across the plains to the Salt Lake Valley, his missions to the Native Americans, and the settlement of Southern Utah. It is one of the key source documents for many of these important events in Church history, and has become one of the most popular classics in the LDS cannon. Led by a keen awareness to spiritual promptings and a strong love for Native Americans, Jacob Hamblin served as a mission president, Church arbitrator, and a scout exploring through Utah, Nevada, and Arizona territories. This action-packed account of a frontier hero is an excellent addition to any library.
Download or read book Gems of Reminiscence written by George C. Lambert and published by Latter-day Strengths. This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gems of Reminiscence, as the seventeenth and final book in the Faith Promoting Series, is a 1915 compilation of accounts from early Latter-Day Saints, each as unique as the next. From personal testimonies and accounts of missionary work in the early days of the Church to experiences with cannibals and volcanoes, Gems of Reminiscence offers insight on a wide variety of topics, “to interest most of those into whose hands it may come.”
Download or read book Eventful Narratives written by Robert Aveson and published by Latter-day Strengths. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eventful Narratives is the thirteenth book in the Faith Promoting Series. It’s comprised of three narratives: the story of an English convert running away from home to join the saints in Utah; the story of a martyr in the Battle of Nauvoo and the faith of his plural widows; and the account of a member’s survival on a government expedition outside of the Salt Lake Valley into Native American territories. All three of these narratives, written to inspire the youth of the church through the exceptional examples of saints before them, give modern-day saints an insight into the trials, experiences, and faith of the saints in the past. Most importantly, these events testify of the divinity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. These real-life experiences show how the Gospel can bless followers of Christ, and give saints the faith to endure regardless of whatever trials they will face in this life. They also give a historical perspective on the eternal nature of the human soul, and the eternal consequences of mortal actions, for better or for worse. In the words of the publishers, the purpose of publishing these narratives “has been and is to increase faith in the hearts of those who peruse them, by showing how miraculously God has overruled everything for the benefit of those who try to serve Him.”
Download or read book Helpful Visions written by O.F. Whitney and published by Latter-day Strengths. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When loved ones pass on, how far away have they traveled? If given a short time remaining in which to live, what would you do to make the most of what you were given? When prayers for healing are denied, and the gift of life taken, could peace fill your soul? Would you be willing to accept the outcome even though it was not what you had hoped? Given a difficult assignment, is it still possible to trust God will be merciful to guide and protect those who put His will before their own? Several short stories in a unique collection that show the powers of Heaven and Earth are closely aligned for the eternal purposes of a loving and eternal Father in Heaven.
Download or read book Early Scenes In Church History written by George Q. Cannon and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the eighth in the Faith-Promoting Series, is a collection of very precious stories from early Church history. Unlike other books written about the Saints in the early days of this dispensation, this book is compiled from the oral histories of the early Saints who lived the experiences. Just as Alma the Younger in the Book of Mormon asked an important question to the people of Nephi that applies to us as Latter-Day Saints as well. In Alma 5:6 he says, “And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, you that belong to this church, have you sufficiently retained in remembrance the captivity of your fathers? Yea, and have you sufficiently retained in remembrance his mercy and long-suffering towards them? And moreover, have ye sufficiently retained in remembrance that he has delivered their souls from hell?” As Latter-Day Saints, remembering the sufferings of the pioneers and early Saints, the mercies and long-suffering shown to them by our Heavenly Father, and learning of their deliverance by His hand will strengthen our faith and bring us closer to Him. I hope that all who read these miraculous accounts will gain strength from them, and see an increase in their faith. May we always “retain in remembrance” these stories.
Download or read book My First Mission written by George Q. Cannon and published by Latter-day Strengths. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book String of Pearls written by George Q. Cannon and published by Zion's Camp Books. This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: String Of Pearls, Book Two of the Faith-Promoting Series is a collection of missionary experiences, revelation, and beginnings. The first section of this book is the account of an emigrant who lived among the Ponca Indians, a tribe east of the Mississippi in the Ohio River Valley. W.C.S. describes hardships that greatly increased his faith since he looked on his experience as an "Indian Mission". Other accounts include the missionary experiences of Jedediah M. Grant, a future member of the Church's First Presidency, President John Taylor's journey across the plains and an unusual prophecy that was received, and the commencement of missionary work in Ireland, with experiences of Matthias Cowley, David W. Patten and several other early Saints. The book ends with the poem “Joseph Smith’s First Prayer”, the poem upon which the LDS hymn is based. The Faith-Promoting Series includes 17 books which were largely written by Deseret Book founder George Q. Cannon, but also include books by Wilford Woodruff and other early LDS leaders.
